Iceland: 11% fall in catch value in 2014
Iceland’s catch value decreased by 11 per cent to 136 billion kronor last year, according to the most recent data from Statistics Iceland. The total v...
Young adults in Finland among those at greatest risk of poverty
Statistics Finland has said that as many as 700,000 people in the country could be classed as “very low income earners”, with one-fifth of that number...
Unemployment on the up in Iceland
Iceland’s unemployment rate increased to 4.6 per cent in February, marking a slight year-on-year rise of 0.2 per cent, according to data published by ...
Greenland’s Aluu Airlines postpones June launch date
Aluu Airlines, a new Greenlandic carrier, has confirmed that it will not be launching on 1 June as initially scheduled and has not given a new date fo...
Kaupthing bankers jailed for fraud in Iceland
Iceland’s Supreme Court has rejected appeals by four Kaupthing executives and upheld their prison sentences for their part in the country’s 2008 finan...
Icelandic exporting more cod to Spain than anywhere else
Spain has overtaken the UK to become Iceland’s number one cod market in terms of volumes, revealed Marko Partners’ Seafood Intelligence Report. In 201...
Fisheries chairman: Industry needs political stability
Iceland’s fisheries are finding it difficult to plan for the future because of political instability and ongoing policy shifts, according to the new F...
Faroe Islands FTA with Turkey another blow for Scottish pelagic industry
The Faroe Islands have signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Turkey in a move that Scottish pelagic industry members have described as “another dev...